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Samba 2.2.12

It looks like Samba 3 is too big for all "swapless" routers.
For this reason I have prepared Samba 2 packages with Samba Web Admin Tool which will ease config and admin for samba newcomers. SWAT interface looks like:

Installation and running samba 2 is done out of the box by the following commands:

If you are doing this manually, here is a sample smb.conf for testing purposes only. Adapt it to your system and security needs (this has none) . Would also suggest modifying your smb.conf and not overwriting with this:

For Mac OSX clients it is necessary to set "encrypt passwords = yes" to be able to log on.
A good resource for learning how to set up samba is in chapter two of:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch00.html

4. You need to add users to your system (do this for each user you want to add to your system):

Type "adduser -H sambausername" with sambausername to be what you want to add to the system password file.
Then "smbpasswd -a sambausername" to add it to the samba user password file.

5. Now you can start samba and check for errors:

Type "/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start"

6. If there are any errors, fix them and you can start samba again. If you change the configuration file you can type "/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba restart". If you want to stop the samba server, type "/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba stop".

7. You can add the command "/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start" to your rcS file or the mount_optextX file.

8. Make your root file system read only after finishing with:

Type "mount -o ro,remount /"

9. When you connect to your plug the share name will be Clouds. So in Linux convention "//Pogoplug/Clouds". In MAC OSX, Go->Connect_To_Server->smb://Pogoplug then choose Clouds and enter your username and password.